Shibboleth 2.0 SP packages look ready

[Ferenc Wagner]

Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:

> Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:
>
>> Thank you very much for getting this far!  Honestly, I didn't hope you
>> could do the upload in the first turn.  Especially not ripe with man
>> pages and documentation!
>
> The man pages aren't particularly great, but I figured we could put out
> something that we can improve later.  I'm hoping that if we get lucky we
> can still make the lenny release, since the library freeze may be somewhat
> postponed.

Huh, I didn't think it was so near.  That would mean gettint the 2.1
release into Lenny is probably out of question, which is sad.

>> Btw. git-buildpackage doesn't run lintian for me in pbuilder.  It's
>> installed, I can invoke it after pbuilder --login, but no automatic
>> joy...  What can be the problem?
>
> I'm not sure that it knows how to invoke lintian in a chroot.  I
> always just install the latest version of lintian.

Thanks for the tip, I installed it, although bpo is still a patchlevel
behind.  Strange nobody misses this from git-bp, at least I can't find
a related bug report.

>> Similarly, is there a way to get a prompt in the chroot if the build
>> fails?  Inserting those #include <memory> directives one-by-one wasn't
>> exactly fun when I had to restart compilation after each failure.
>
> I don't, and yeah, this is incredibly annoying.  I sometimes resort to
> just creating a regular sid chroot with debootstrap, copying the source
> into it, and then working inside that chroot until I get the compilation
> to work.
>
> These days, I deal with this by just running unstable on my personal
> desktops, but I understand other people not wanting to do that.  :)

I'm starting to lean to that, too...  But I'll try to contact the
git-bp developers with these wishes.
-- 
Cheers,
Feri.